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Camelopard wishes you a comfortable stay in your Marston Missouri hotel. Seasoned travellers will become acquainted with the famous hotels in their destinations. The Langham Shanghai Xintiandi in Shanghai, the Porto Bay Rio Internacional Hotel in Rio de Janeiro, the New Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, the Venetian Macao Resort Hotel in Macau, the Four Seasons Hotel in Hong Kong, the Hotel Lisboa and its famous casino in Macau and the Hotel Metropole in Hanoi. are internationally renowned hotels.

The spectral little girl, nicknamed Amy, who plays in the Music City Centre in Branson; the bigfoot seen in Hillsboro (could it have been MoMo?); the tusked, serpentine Gowrow Dragon of Marvel Cave near Branson, named from its fearsome growls;MoMo, the hairy, sasquatch-like Missouri Monster, that is believed to prey on the dogs of the town of Louisiana; the gold mine in the Ozarks, eighteen miles south west of the town of Galena, which is guarded by the skeletal ghosts of seven Spanish miners; the Osage Native American ghostly wedding ceremony that is sometimes heard and occasionally seen, in the Bridal Cave of Thunder Mountain Park in Camdenton; the flying, fire-breathing dragon that was seen from a steamboat in the 1850s; the shadow people, with glowing red eyes, that lurk in the town of Maryville; and the ghost of a young boy in Sauer Castle, Kansas City, are among the true ghost stories, myths and legends of Missouri.

How the Great Spirit created the Mina Sauk waterfall, in Taum Sauk Mountain State Park, to wash away the blood of the Piankashaw maiden, Mina Sauk, who jumped to her death to follow her Osage lover, who had been thrown over the cliff on the orders of her father, Taum Sauk; the almost innumerable traditions, magical spells and superstitions of the Ozarks, some of which are recorded in Harold Bell Wright's novel The Shepherd of the Hills and in the John Wayne movie of the same name (though a rather different plot); the pteradactyl of Altamont; hauntings of the historic Savoy Hotel and Grill in Kansas City, including that of Betsy Ward who, in the nineteenth century, died in her bath in room 505, as well as the spectre of Fred Lightner and, on the fourth floor, a little girl in Victorian dress, not to mention the strange behaviour of the elevator, which sometimes avoids the fourth floor and sometimes refuses to leave it; the large, black, feline Ozark Howler, the glowing eyes of which may cause the death of those it looks upon; the ghostly boy haunting the Union Covered Bridge in the eponymous State Historic Site, where the boy drowned in the nineteenth century; strange phenomena at the Kemp Mansion Restaurant and Inn, St Louis; several ghosts haunting South East Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau; the Spook Light of the Devil's Promenade, near Joplin (is it a lantern held by a ghostly miner or headless Native American, or is it the spectral light of Native American lovers who died in a lover's pact?); and the phantom of a weeping Native American woman who, on moonlit nights, repeats her death jump from a cliff in Creve Coeur Lake Memorial Park (Creve Coeur Park), in St Louis County, where she tried to join her late husband in the spirit world, are other legendary tales of ghosts and haunted places in Missouri.

So you want to see America. Nobody can visit all of America but if you have seen the cities of Kansas City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Skagway, Las Vegas, Miami, Detroit, Santa Fe, San Diego, Juneau, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Houston, Atlantic City, Seattle, New York, Phoenix, St Louis, Indianapolis, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Savannah, Sitka, Minneapolis, Washington DC, Anchorage, Sacramento, Atlanta, Fairbanks, Boston, Lake Tahoe, Dallas, Corpus Christi and Albuquerque you can be regarded as well travelled within the United States. Other world famous USA destinations include Rodeos, Route 66, the Ozarks, Marvellous scenery and sea life in Kenai Fjords National Park, the Adirondacks, the Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier National Park, Niagara Falls, Hawaiian volcanoes such as Mauna Loa, the wild west town of Tombstone, the Disney resorts, the Arctic wilderness of Alaska, the plantations and bayous of the Mississippi Delta, Mount McKinley and fabulous wildlife in Denali National Park, the Everglades, Native American nations such as the Navajo and the Hopi, Bryce Canyon, Yellowstone National Park, Mount Rushmore, the Appalachians, the beach at Waikiki in Hawaii, the Okefenokee Swamp, the Florida Keys, Yosemite National Park, Glacier Bay National Park and the California coastline. See as much as you can of the only country in the world that includes territory both in the Arctic and in the tropics. Happy travelling!

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